The Visva-Bharati Quarterly February—April 1952

A bee which has returned to the hive can convey the following information to its fellows : "There is a source of food requiring about twenty workers six hundred yards away thirty degrees to the right of the direction of the sun and with a smell of jasmine." The more workers are needed the longer the dance lasts. [...] If the straight part of the dance is thirty degrees to the right of the vertical the food is thirty degrees to the right of the sun and so on. [...] The differences occur both in the rhythm with which the abdomen is swung to indicate distance and in the actual figure of a simpler type of dance which I have not described here which indicates the presence of food quite close to the hive. [...] If we admit for the sake of argument that the science of psychology could be developed to control the thoughts of others we still maintain that the development of psychology on the basis of hedonism cannot properly solve the problem of peace and happiness. [...] The conflicts that are prevalent in the present state of India can be really removed only when man realizes the truth which the mystics of all religions emphasize and what Swami Vivekananda of the modern world declared to be the manifestation of the divinity that is already in man.